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Exploring!

kcanadensis and I have been exploring as much as we can before it gets too cold. One of my favorite places to explore is an area that isn't really frequented by the public, but has several different key habitats, one of which (a fen) isn't very common in the area. And it's full of deer:

We found two deer skulls the first day we went out... one of the skulls (the first pictured) was all that was left of the animal. It had been there for a long time... it was very chewed-up and bleached out.

We also encountered some critters! Steph found a rather-large millipede in the leaf litter, and then discovered a very large slug in the brain cavity of the second deer skull!

We returned a couple days later and found a third deer skull, as well:

Our most recent hike into this area began with the discovery of a beautiful deer trail, and ended with Steph finding an old, shed four-point antler!

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Wow. I used to find this-year's golf balls in the woods and even they'd been gnawed down to their rubber-band core, heh. Although... I have algae growing on my windows and I only cleaned them last month. Talk lichen and I might be impressed. ;-P